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The word 'bailie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bailieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bailie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Dod Mathieson, Steenhillock's bailie hard at his dowp. They war ca
winter, an muckit oot bi the bailie as pairt o his darg...bit lik
ge, winnerin fit hid taen his bailie's loon tae dae sic a thing ta
e ferm, or bedd nearhaun..the bailie, Will Gilchrist cycled doon t
4 matches

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
I wis bailie at Mains O'Aswanley on page 27

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
wis her first offence an the bailie spiert, "Whit tempted ye tae
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
m no a doctour anerlie; A'm a bailie; an gif A kep a braith o comp on page 9

1 matches

General Central

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
i this they went tae the Toun Bailie’s hoose an forced him tae h

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